Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-23


tie Top If the ladder and !ookint
down. 1t Is the last mystery taken OUT
OF botany, and geology, and astronomy,
and theology. O, will it not be grand
TO have all questions answered? The
perpctually recurring Interrogation
point changed for the mark OF excla-
nation. All riddles solved. Who will
fear TO 90 out on that discovery, when
all the questions are to be decided
which we have been discussing all our
liveoP Who shall not clap his hands
in the ant cipation of the blessed
country, If it tie no better than through
holy curiosity, crying: Tue time Of
my departure is at handpn
remark. again, VIC ought TO have
the JOY OF the text, because, leaving
TINS world, we move into the best soci-
ETY. of the universe. You see a great
crowd Of people in some street, and YOU
say. WHO is passing therep What
general, what prince Is going up there?"
Well, see a great throng in heaven.
/ say: ''Who is the focus of all that ad-
miration? Who is the center of all
that g!itterins company" 1t is Jesus,
the champion of all worlds, the favor
lite of AL ages. Do you know what is
the first question the soul will ask
when it ZONES through the gate of
heavenP | think the first question will
be: where is Jesus, the Savior that
pardoned my sin; that buried my soc-
rows; thot fought my battles; that won
my victories?' . radiant One. How
| would like to sec Thee! Thou Of the
manger, but without its humiliation.
Thou or the cross, bat without lis
pangs; Thou Of the grave, but with
out its darkness.
COMPANIONsIIIP WITH CHRIST.
The Bible intimates that we will talk
with Jesus in heavcu Just rs a brother
talks with u brother. Now, what Will
you ask Him first? | DO not know. ]
can think what | would ask Paul first,
if | saw him in heaven. | think
would like t. hear him describe the
storm that carne upon the ship when
there were y hundred and seventy.
live souls on the vessel, Paul being
the ONLY man on board cool enoagh t,
describe the storm. THERE'S a inscina.
ton about a ship and the sea that
shall never get over. aud / think
would like 10 hear HIM talk about ,hat
first. But when | meet my Lord Jesus
Christ. of what shall | frs, deli.i. &c
hear Him speak? Now / think what
IS. | Shall first want - near taC
tragedy of His last hours; and then
Luke's account of the cruclixion, ant
Marx account of the cruciiNioa
and Johns account Of the cru
c~ifiXion will be nothing
while from the living lips Of Chris
the story shall be told of the gloom tina
fell, ana the devils that arose, and tn,
fact that upon His endurance depended
the rescue OF q race; and there was
darkness in the sky, and there was
darkness in the soul. and the pain be.
came more sharp, and the burdens be.
came more heavy, until the mob began
to swim away from the dying vision OF
Christ, and the cursing of the moi
came to his ear more family. and his
hands were fastened TO the horizontal
piece OF the cross, and his feet were
fastened to the perpendicular piece Of
the crCss, and his head fell forward in
a swoon ~ he uttered the last moar
and cried:
GIT Is FINISHED y
All heaven will stop 10 Listen unit
the story is done, and every harp vii
be put down, and every lip closed. an,
all eyes fixed upon the divine narrator
until the story is done; and then, a
the tap OF the baton, the eternal or
chestra will rouse up; finger on string
of harp,and lips to the mouth of trump
ct. there shall rcil forth the oratorio o
the Messiah: Worthy is the Lamt
that was slain to receive blessing, anC
riches, and honor, and glory. aud pow
or, world without erd :"
what He eD0urcth, oh, who eau tell,
To save our s,uls from death aud hell y
When there was between Paul and tina
magnificent parsonage only the thin
ness Of the sharp edge of the sword o
the executioner. do YOU wonder that h,
wanted to go? o, my lord Jesus, lie
one wave of that glory roll over thil
auditory! Hark! | hear the wedding
bells of heaven ringing now The mar
riage of the Lamb las come, and tn,